Reading For Special Needs - Literacy-Reading and Writing

Literacy-Reading and Writing

Literacy refers to both reading and writing skills. Writing is the symbolic representation of language. Reading is the cognitive process of decoding and understanding the written symbol system. These are very broad and basic definitions as the definitions of these terms often vary based on the model or approach.

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